Hi, I recently found that my processor is capable of running 64bit OS (it has the lm flag in /proc/cpuinfo) and I am using 32bit Arch which is turn off I think. How do I convert to 64bit without the format-and-reinstall ? -- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com
you have to reinstall On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan <lists@itech7.com>wrote:
Hi,
I recently found that my processor is capable of running 64bit OS (it has the lm flag in /proc/cpuinfo) and I am using 32bit Arch which is turn off I think. How do I convert to 64bit without the format-and-reinstall ?
-- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr. <jeffrey.parke@gmail.com> wrote:
you have to reinstall
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan <lists@itech7.com>wrote:
Hi,
I recently found that my processor is capable of running 64bit OS (it has the lm flag in /proc/cpuinfo) and I am using 32bit Arch which is turn off I think. How do I convert to 64bit without the format-and-reinstall ?
-- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com
Hmm that would be a tough time for me because I am on a superslow connection and have tons of stuff from AUR. Can't I switch the repo in pacman and do it ? -- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com
looks like you are still going to have to download all the packages over again. On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan <lists@itech7.com>wrote:
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr. <jeffrey.parke@gmail.com> wrote:
you have to reinstall
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan <lists@itech7.com wrote:
Hi,
I recently found that my processor is capable of running 64bit OS (it has the lm flag in /proc/cpuinfo) and I am using 32bit Arch which is turn off I think. How do I convert to 64bit without the format-and-reinstall ?
-- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com
Hmm that would be a tough time for me because I am on a superslow connection and have tons of stuff from AUR. Can't I switch the repo in pacman and do it ?
-- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com
On Fri, 28 May 2010 08:28:55 -0500 "Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr." <jeffrey.parke@gmail.com> wrote:
you have to reinstall
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan <lists@itech7.com>wrote:
Hi,
I recently found that my processor is capable of running 64bit OS (it has the lm flag in /proc/cpuinfo) and I am using 32bit Arch which is turn off I think. How do I convert to 64bit without the format-and-reinstall ?
-- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Migrating_Between_Architectures_Without_...
Hum... this technique looks like reinstalling to me. You don't *convert*anything but *reinstall* packages. So to my point of view you would be better off installing from scratch. Much cleaner. You will still have to download 64bits packages. Still you can keep the list of installed packages with $(pacman -Qq) and keep some conf files before erasing the 32bit root partition. On 28 May 2010 15:50, Hilton Medeiros <medeiros.hilton@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 28 May 2010 08:28:55 -0500 "Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr." <jeffrey.parke@gmail.com> wrote:
you have to reinstall
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan <lists@itech7.com>wrote:
Hi,
I recently found that my processor is capable of running 64bit OS (it has the lm flag in /proc/cpuinfo) and I am using 32bit Arch which is turn off I think. How do I convert to 64bit without the format-and-reinstall ?
-- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Migrating_Between_Architectures_Without_...
On Fri, 28 May 2010 16:04:50 +0200 Guillaume ALAUX <guillaume@alaux.net> wrote:
Hum... this technique looks like reinstalling to me. You don't *convert*anything but *reinstall* packages. So to my point of view you would be better off installing from scratch. Much cleaner. You will still have to download 64bits packages.
Still you can keep the list of installed packages with $(pacman -Qq) and keep some conf files before erasing the 32bit root partition.
On 28 May 2010 15:50, Hilton Medeiros <medeiros.hilton@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 28 May 2010 08:28:55 -0500 "Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr." <jeffrey.parke@gmail.com> wrote:
you have to reinstall
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan <lists@itech7.com>wrote:
Hi,
I recently found that my processor is capable of running 64bit OS (it has the lm flag in /proc/cpuinfo) and I am using 32bit Arch which is turn off I think. How do I convert to 64bit without the format-and-reinstall ?
-- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Migrating_Between_Architectures_Without_...
Arch's competent Linux users should know that there is no way to magically convert i686 binaries to x86_64, right guys? I know you are just joking. ;)
Hi Nilesh, I would suggest you to stay on 32bit arch untill you are ready to migrate. Regards, Gaurish Sharma www.gaurishsharma.com
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Gaurish Sharma <contact@gaurishsharma.com> wrote:
Hi Nilesh, I would suggest you to stay on 32bit arch untill you are ready to migrate.
Regards, Gaurish Sharma www.gaurishsharma.com
I am ready to migrate. Just I've to get a pen drive of about 4 GB to load arch64 into it, (my dvd drive sucks). -- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Gaurish Sharma <contact@gaurishsharma.com> wrote:
Hi Nilesh, I would suggest you to stay on 32bit arch untill you are ready to migrate.
Regards, Gaurish Sharma www.gaurishsharma.com
^+1 you wont get much performance improvements by using a 64 bit os. but if u have 4gb or more ram then u should use 64 bit to fully utilize it.
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Madhurya Kakati <mkakati2805@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Gaurish Sharma <contact@gaurishsharma.com> wrote:
Hi Nilesh, I would suggest you to stay on 32bit arch untill you are ready to migrate.
Regards, Gaurish Sharma www.gaurishsharma.com
^+1 you wont get much performance improvements by using a 64 bit os. but if u have 4gb or more ram then u should use 64 bit to fully utilize it.
I have 1gb RAM. Can you give an approximate % increase in performance if I switch to 64 ? -- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com
5-10% that too if you compile lots of stuff. otherwise for browsing and all no noticeable increase. On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan <lists@itech7.com> wrote:
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Madhurya Kakati <mkakati2805@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Gaurish Sharma <contact@gaurishsharma.com> wrote:
Hi Nilesh, I would suggest you to stay on 32bit arch untill you are ready to migrate.
Regards, Gaurish Sharma www.gaurishsharma.com
^+1 you wont get much performance improvements by using a 64 bit os. but if u have 4gb or more ram then u should use 64 bit to fully utilize it.
I have 1gb RAM. Can you give an approximate % increase in performance if I switch to 64 ?
-- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com
On 05/28/2010 11:47 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote:
5-10% that too if you compile lots of stuff. otherwise for browsing and all no noticeable increase.
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan<lists@itech7.com> wrote
I have 1gb RAM. Can you give an approximate % increase in performance if I switch to 64 ?
-- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com
Please do not top post. By this, we mean that if you are replying to a message, please put your replies after the text that you copy in your reply. A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/mailing-list-faq/etiquette.html
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 1:58 PM, pyther <pyther@pyther.net> wrote:
On 05/28/2010 11:47 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote:
5-10% that too if you compile lots of stuff. otherwise for browsing and all no noticeable increase.
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan<lists@itech7.com> wrote
I have 1gb RAM. Can you give an approximate % increase in performance if I switch to 64 ?
-- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com
Please do not top post. By this, we mean that if you are replying to a message, please put your replies after the text that you copy in your reply.
A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/mailing-list-faq/etiquette.html
If you only have 1GB of ram, it's very much a waste of time to even bother switch to 64. You'll waste more time downloading packages than anything else. Once you reach >2GB, then should you really consider switching, I believe. -- kbar
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Hilton Medeiros <medeiros.hilton@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 28 May 2010 16:04:50 +0200 Guillaume ALAUX <guillaume@alaux.net> wrote:
Hum... this technique looks like reinstalling to me. You don't *convert*anything but *reinstall* packages. So to my point of view you would be better off installing from scratch. Much cleaner. You will still have to download 64bits packages.
Still you can keep the list of installed packages with $(pacman -Qq) and keep some conf files before erasing the 32bit root partition.
On 28 May 2010 15:50, Hilton Medeiros <medeiros.hilton@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 28 May 2010 08:28:55 -0500 "Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr." <jeffrey.parke@gmail.com> wrote:
you have to reinstall
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan <lists@itech7.com>wrote:
Hi,
I recently found that my processor is capable of running 64bit OS (it has the lm flag in /proc/cpuinfo) and I am using 32bit Arch which is turn off I think. How do I convert to 64bit without the format-and-reinstall ?
-- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Migrating_Between_Architectures_Without_...
Arch's competent Linux users should know that there is no way to magically convert i686 binaries to x86_64, right guys? I know you are just joking. ;)
No I didn't know that really. If I'm an arch user should that imply that I know anything and everything about Linux LOL ? Its like, if you're a cook, then it implies that you can make any sort of food, be it american, european, asian, etc. ?!?! -- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 20:33 +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Hilton Medeiros <medeiros.hilton@gmail.com> wrote:
Arch's competent Linux users should know that there is no way to magically convert i686 binaries to x86_64, right guys? I know you are just joking. ;)
No I didn't know that really. If I'm an arch user should that imply that I know anything and everything about Linux LOL ? Its like, if you're a cook, then it implies that you can make any sort of food, be it american, european, asian, etc. ?!?!
No, if you're an arch user it implies you'd have already done some searching and come across the threads about converting which explicitly tell you that all binaries/libs (basically packages) need to be reinstalled, and all you can keep are most of your configuration files. And at 1 GB RAM it'll probably run slower. 64-bit binaries are larger in memory than 32-bit (its not double the size, but they ARE bigger). Depends on what exactly you run of course, once you start hitting swap you'll need a cup of coffee to get anything done.
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audioslave10152
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Hilton Medeiros
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